Giving Him a Piece of Her Mind
Annie
I whimpered as Gerald pulled out of me, panting hard as he kissed my lips before rolling off me to lay next to me on his stomach. He wrapped his arm around my waist, pulling me closer to his side. The tender way he cradled me against his body belied the vile things he had been doing to me. Over the last 48 hours, I had been forced to have intercourse with him and his replacement ‘Annie.’ I tensed as his lips moved over one of the many spots he had ripped the flesh off of in his determination to break Logan’s mark on my skin.
“I’m sorry,” he murmured as he lifted his head to meet my eyes. “I don’t like treating you like this, baby, but you made me. Why did you have to try to replace me?”
I squeezed my eyes shut as I thought about Logan, wondering for the millionth time if he was truly still alone. I hated that he had given me something to keep me from linking anyone. I didn’t care if I died. Not anymore. I just didn’t want to be the reason that Logan died. When my bottom lip trembled as a tear escaped from my eyes, he gently rubbed it with his thumb.
“Annie, don’t cry,” he whispered, distraught. “I’m sorry.”
“You’re sorry?” I asked, my eyes flying open. “Did you ever stop to think about how I felt? I wasn’t trying to hurt you!” I sobbed. “I JUST WANTED TO HONOR THE GODDESS! I WANTED TO BE HAPPY!”
He recoiled as if I had slapped him. “I thought we were happy!” He snarled.
“We were, and then you went crazy,” I said sadly. “I just want my loving brother back, Gerry. Can you bring him back to me?” I whispered, searching his eyes for any hint of the man I would have done anything for.
“Why do you want that weakling back?” He snapped. “You forced me to be this guy! This is all your fault! YOU CHEATED ON ME! YOU THREW OUR LOVE AWAY! NOT ME! YOU DID THIS! YOU FUCKED THAT ASSHOLE AND LET HIM ERASE ME OUT OF YOUR LIFE!” He slapped me, making me cry out in pain before he gripped my chin to force me to look back at him. “I LOVE YOU! I’VE PROTECTED YOU! I’VE DONE EVERYTHING FOR YOU! WHY CAN’T YOU LOVE ME THE WAY I LOVE YOU?!”
I met his eyes, not even bothering to try to stop the tears from free flowing down my face. “I used to love you like that! You used to mean everything to me. But then you changed. And I can’t love a monster.”
“A MONSTER?! YOU THINK I’M A MONSTER? I’LL SHOW YOU A FUCKING MONSTER!”
He yelled before climbing off the bed to angrily begin to get dressed. “You’re going to wish you were dead before I am through with you!”
I rolled over to my side, curling up in the fetal position as I closed my eyes. “I already wish that,” I whispered, my voice catching on a sob.
“Fuck, Annie!” He growled as he took my hand. “I really hate it when you cry.”
I opened my eyes to see him kneeling beside the bed. “And I hate that it’s you that makes me cry.”
“I’m sorry, Annie. Tell me what to do to fix this, and I will. Please don’t give up on us. We can be happy again.”
I shook my head before reaching up to cover the spot where Logan’s mark had graced my skin. “No, Gerry, we can’t. You can’t erase hurting me or making me sleep with your other woman. You can’t take back hurting Logan. And I say hurt because I need to believe that you didn’t kill him. You can try, but I will never forgive you.”
He rocked back on his knees, eyeing me. “Not even if I never hurt you again? What if I stop sleeping with anyone else?”
I shook my head again. “Not even then. The damage is already done.”
“Annie, please, I can fix this. I—”
I tugged at my hand, trying to pull it away from his grip. “No, Gerald, you can’t. I will never forgive you. I will never forget what you have done. And above all else, I will never be able to trust you again. You can blame me as much as you want, but the truth of the matter is that you destroyed what we had. You broke promises that you made to me. You aura’ed me without my permission. You are holding me hostage in this cabin, and you have taken each and every choice away from me.” I rolled away from him. “You raped me, Gerald. You threatened and hurt people that I care about. There is nothing left to salvage.”
“So what do you think I should do? Just give up?” He spat angrily.
“Yes. I did. There’s no point in holding onto something that I will never give to you again. I will never look at you with love in my eyes. You will never hear me say that I love you ever again. I will try to run from you every chance I get until you either kill me or I get away. I will never enjoy your touch or the touch of anyone you bring here to make me touch. I will just loathe you more and more with every day that passes while I pray for the Goddess to bring me home. I will pray for my death, and I won’t even ask for a quick or pleasant one, because nothing could be as bad as being here with you. You ask me why I can’t love you like you love me when I should be the one asking you that question. So save your apologies. Save your soft words. They are falling on deaf ears, because I just simply don’t believe them. You want me to believe that you are sincere, then prove it. Let me go.”
My head was yanked backward, and I didn’t even bother to make a sound as I was forced to meet his eyes. “You want me to set you free?” He laughed coldly. “What makes you think that you deserve freedom? You betrayed me. Everything I have done is in response to your whoring ways.” He pulled my head back more, causing my neck to crack in several places before he let me go. “I’ll let you go alright, if you do one thing for me.”
Hope blossomed inside of me as I looked into his eyes. “What’s that?”
He smirked at me as he got to his feet. “You’ll see. Don’t leave the cabin. If I have to hunt you down, you already know what I will do.”
I pushed myself up, watching him leave the cabin. “Where are you going?” I called.
He paused to glance at me angrily over his shoulder. “To get my mate.”
My mouth fell open as his words registered. He found his mate? And he hadn’t told me? I couldn’t help but wonder what else he was hiding as I stared at the door. Had he ever planned on telling me? Or was it just one more lie he told me to try to hurt me? I couldn’t be sure either way. I didn’t know this version of him. And I didn’t want to.
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